Università Roma Tre

After providing a general framework, some particular cases will be analysed in detail, useful to bring to light the links between national security and repression. The following topics were addressed during the seminar: the “internal enemy”; the 1960s between crisis and revolution; Kissinger, the United States and the coup d’état in Chile; the dictatorships in the Southern Cone; the Condor Plan and transnational terrorism; the Reagan administration and Central America; the cultural Cold War.

Reference Texts:

- Armony Ariel, Producing and Exporting State Terror. The Case of Argentina, in Cecilia Menjivar, and Néstor Rodríguez (eds.), When States Kill: Latin America, the U.S., and Technologies of Terror, University of Texas Press, Austin 2005, pp. 305-331
- Calamai Enrico, Niente asilo politico. Diplomazia, diritti umani e desaparecidos, Feltrinelli, Milano 2003
- Calandra Benedetta, La guerra fredda culturale, Ombre Corte, Roma 2011
- Cricco Massimiliano, Guasconi Maria Eleonora, Napolitano Matteo Luigi (eds.), L’America Latina tra guerra fredda e globalizzazione, Edizioni Polistampa, 2010
- Kornbluh Peter, The Pinochet File. A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability, New York, The New Press, 2003
- Immerman Richard, Guatemala as Cold War History, “Political Science Quaterly”, 95:4, 1980-1981, pp. 629-653
- Nocera Raffaele, Stati Uniti e America Latina dal 1823 a oggi, Carocci, Roma 2005
- Nunca mas: Rapporto della commissione nazionale sulla scomparsa di persone in Argentina, Emi, 1986
- Schoultz Lars, Human Rights and Usa Policy Toward Latin America, Princeton University Press, New Jersey 1981
- Stabili Maria Rosaria, Le verità ufficiali, Edizioni Nuova Cultura, 2010
- Zanchetta Barbara, Between Cold War Imperatives and State Sponsored Terrorism: The United States and “Operation Condor”, “Studies in Conflict & Terrorism”, 39:12, 2016, pp. 1084-1102